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Female circumcision
Meaning
Noun
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In Medicine, Sciences & Circumcision:
The
removal
of the
clitoral hood
, the
female
prepuce
cognate
to the
foreskin
removed
in the
male
equivalent.
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In Circumcision:
Any
operation
involving
removal
of any of various
parts
of the
female
external
genital organs
including and
in addition to
the
hood
, such as the
clitoris
or
labia
;
regarded
as
mutilation
in many societies.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Synonyms
Female Genital Mutilation
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